Workshop Recording Now Available
Watch as your schedule allows!
Sometimes teachers are unsure how to encourage improvisation in their students. With improvisation as an important part of navigating one’s life, creativity is a way of owning and dealing with who you are. Beyond exploration (which is trying out ideas on one concept) this session will give you thoughts to employ and expand using several musical elements together. Lessons will set structures for combining previous learning for children to feel safe illuminating paths to improvisation.
Come away with some tried and true procedures to introduce and improve improvisation in your classes. Lesson plans and outlines of possibilities will be presented. Though online, you can experience the joy of improvising music and movement in your own home and take it to your students.
Join Judy and Lisa for this illuminating workshop! You may want to have available an instrument: recorder, keyboard, Orff instrument, your horn and of course your voice! It will also be good to have a space to move.
After registering, you will receive an email with directions to access the recording and downloadable materials.
Upon completion, you may request a certificate of completion for 1.5 hours of professional development by emailing our team at [email protected]
Judy Thompson-Barthwell grew up and still lives in Detroit. A music educator of 44 years, she has taught general music, choir, and dance K-12. She is now retired, but stays involved by volunteering in music classrooms in the Detroit area. She mentors working music educators as invited. A teacher educator in Orff Teacher Certification courses for over 35 years, she received the Michigan Music Educator of the Year Award in 2012 and more recently, the 2021 American Orff-Schulwerk Association Distinguished Service Award. In her retirement, Judy continues to grow by studying Jazz.
Lisa Sempsey holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Education and a Master’s of Education in Leadership for Teaching and Learning, as well as completed Kodály and Orff-Schulwerk levels and one level of World Music Drumming. She is a clinician and workshop presenter who has experience teaching K-6th grade general music, children’s choirs, elementary and middle school strings, ukulele clubs, barred percussion ensembles, and as an Art & Music curriculum coordinator. She has a passion for sharing how to design student-centered curricula specific to individual/school/system needs. Currently, Lisa teaches K-6th grade general music, chorus, and strings at Farmdale Elementary School and is the K-12 Music Department Coordinator in Hempfield School District. She is also an adjunct undergraduate and graduate music education professor at Elizabethtown College.
Improvisation
$20
one time payment
All registrants will receive instructions to access recording and downloadable materials.
Upon completion, you may request a certificate of completion for 1.5 hours of professional development by emailing our team at [email protected]
